Military of Guatemala

The Guatemalan Armed Forces consists of National Army of Guatemala (Ejercito Nacional de Guatemala, ENG), the Guatemalan National Defense Navy (Marina de la Defensa Nacional, includes Marines) and the Guatemalan Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca, FAG), plus the Presidential Honor Guard (Guardia de Honor Presidencial).

Military of Guatemala

The Guatemalan Armed Forces consists of National Army of Guatemala (Ejercito Nacional de Guatemala, ENG), the Guatemalan National Defense Navy (Marina de la Defensa Nacional, includes Marines) and the Guatemalan Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca, FAG), plus the Presidential Honor Guard (Guardia de Honor Presidencial).

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In one episode, on April 3, 1982, the Guatemalanarmy the village of Chel, slaughtering its residents and orphaning Pedro Pacheco Bop, whose great-grandfather, parents, and five siblings (aged two to 14) were all murdered, their blood draining into the Chel River where the troops hurled the dead. Tomas Chávez Brito was two years old when the army......

Women from the village of San Juan Comalapa, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Guatemala City, spent years saving money and raising donations to buy a plot of land where an army camp once stood ... Tuyuc is the NationalCoordinator of GuatemalanWidows, a group of Kakchikel women who planted themselves in front of the army in the 1980s demanding they be told the location of their missing relatives....

Her husband, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, was a Mayan comandante and guerrilla who was disappeared after he was captured by the US-backed Guatemalanarmy in the 1980s... The army faked his death to better take advantage of his intelligence ... And at the same time, about a week after he disappeared, they sent a memo to both the White House and the State Department saying, “Oh, the army just captured Bámaca alive....

A federal judge will hold a hearing today on whether to delay Tuesday’s deadline that mandated the reunification of all children under the age of 5 whom the Trump administration separated from their parents at the border ...Jennifer Harbury has lived in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for more than 40 years ... Her husband, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, a Mayan comandante, was disappeared after he was captured by the Guatemalanarmy in the ’80s ... ....

In other parts of the world that don’t have blanket rulings like Roe that bar criminalizing abortion, there are tight restrictions and outright bans of abortions ... The debate is the same around the globe as it is in the United States ... ... Last year, the Guatemalanarmy seized a Dutch vessel run by Women on Waves, a group that takes women early on in their pregnancies out to international waters and offers them an abortion pill ... ....

Extended conversation with Jennifer Harbury, a human rights lawyer who has lived here in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for over 40 years and has been active in the response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Her husband, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, was a Mayan comandante and guerrilla who was disappeared after he was captured by the Guatemalanarmy in the 1980s. After a long campaign, she found there was U.S ... ....

Extended conversation with Jennifer Harbury, a human rights lawyer who has lived here in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for over 40 years and has been active in the response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Her husband, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, was a Mayan comandante and guerrilla who was disappeared after he was captured by the Guatemalanarmy in the 1980s. After a long campaign, she found there was U.S ... ....

In our special broadcast from the U.S.-Mexico border, we speak to human rights lawyer Jennifer Harbury, who has lived here in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for over 40 years and has been active in the response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Her husband, Efra�n B�maca Vel�squez, was a Mayan comandante and guerrilla who was disappeared after he was captured by the Guatemalanarmy in the 1980s... ....